Saturday, 9 March 2019

Screen Savers







Landscape notes from a small grey note book to go onto a computer screen - different pictures every ten seconds.
I got tired of the perfect chocolate box reel of fantastic places on my computer screen & decided to offer up my own simple black and white landscapes.

First three "performed" 9-3-19
This blog goes chronologically backward.




 With added "fly by night quotes"2a






Vegetal Protein
From a hair care advert
-still inventing new names. 2b



2c
2d


The bridge over the Bitlis. 2e




Now with 10% more creatin 
3




People do what people do
(Illuminating ourselves) 

3b


Dragon Map 
4b


Insert for the above


Parklife with weeds 
5



A heart for spring. 
5b


A clean sweep.
5c



Change of settings on the copier
1st double page scan. 

6





A break from hibernation. 
6a


First song.
6b



Half awake and restless.
6c

Miser. 
6d



Crow black chicken, crow all day.
6d2




Move over (I've got nothing to show you) 
6e




Waking Up
6f.





Takes allsorts 
6g




Backstop?
6h.
Sometimes, the notes don't fit the picture correctly.
But they were titles or descriptions of subjects or happenings
experienced at the time.


Pieces of Narnia?
6hi



Shuffling the elements,
plenty of room for mischief!
6i
At home with the family,
6ij




6k



Facing up to the emerging truth as
it rises from the depths 

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The Essoldo,
I wonder if it's still standing?
7a



The cliffs at Sea Side
(waiting to pounce)
7b




7c



Ignore me, I'm just a corner
7d



A bunch of pick ups,
the long cut, over a year tied up, 1st Aug 18
7e
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,
never let it fade away. 

7f


I have done this whole post in "grayscale"
1/4 of it was coloured
and was about ideas.
& I didn't want confusion or competition. 

8




8b





Geraniums from Little Orchard Village, 14-7-18
8c






Another double page requiring extensive digital doctoring
after conversion to grayscale. 

9




Heading for "Aviator Bird Thoughts"
9b





Down by the pond.
9c



For a small note-book, this one has lasted a fair amount of time
This image has the same amount of balance
as previous pictures various birds facing up to one another. 

10



Looking backwards, over my shoulder. 
10b




The fact is - in my opinion.  
11




Antique Street scene from Java.
11b
1st small intervention.
12b



One of those "well-being" Landscapes
containing a certain amount of hope for the future. 

12


Black dog in a coal cellar. 
12c



Emerging from a wardrobe
12d





22.4.18
A black-hearted spring card.

13



A ledge to lie in
(recovery position) 

13b




14

I found it in the bushes
(2nd small intervention) 

14b


Upside down pudding. 
14c



Moon river, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style
someday. 

15



The king of spring. 
The idea does not necessarily precede the mark.
15a




Spring breaks into a run. 
15b




12-4-18
Underneath Spaghetti Junction. 

15c





$ famous wizards at a meaningful meeting
in a very big hall somewhere. 

15cd



Intersectionality
What can I do about them here?
I have no answers.

15d




16







This is the way of life,
since the world began.

17




Another double page spread with the colour removed.
Anyway, time flies by
(mind, only the people for whom it has flown by know this) 

18





They Knew that there would have to be a thing:
introspective,
retrospective
& definitive.

19



Pastoral.
20




21



A word in your shell-like ear.
 22






Waiting for Jonah.
23





O what a beautiful mornin' 
23b



This post seems to have gone from spring
to spring, spring, spring 

23c

12-3-19
I suppose the thing about all of these is that most of them are ideas that could go forward.
& largely ideas that are pertinent to my work.



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Saturday, 9 February 2019

Mug Shots

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Title Page for an earlier version of "Chronologicallyours"


Originally from a large canvas (6ft x 9ft),
bemoaning the chronic closure of our public libraries.































This lot was painted at my old studio in Ladywood.


Swami & Friends



Individuals gleaned from Jakarta Museum and put into a composition with oil pastels in a beautiful hotel garden full of singing birds in Yogyakarta 1986.





































There are Fairies at the bottom of my Garden



An eidetic fairy tale





What with confronting my female side and all, in a sense this is one of the most revolutionary things (for me) I have ever done!
I mean, boys don’t deal with fairies – it’s normally crime and football.





It’s a case of trying to get all the fairy faces balanced – looking like they had all been made at the same time – instantly created!

Some are fuzzy & they work, some are quite clean cut – almost unreal in some “hyper real” kind of way.





I have decided to confront my macho side with this composition.








this pair – they are feeling trees





Or – maybe, they are being trees.




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Mind, there is nothing wrong in being a tree, I’ve done it myself.



5








I talk to the trees that's why they put me away.
















Put on your sailing shoes


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